She was supposed to be a mark. Someone Chase seduced and left broken hearted by Olivia’s command.
She wasn’t supposed to be someone Chase actually found himself caring about.
Yet, since opening up to Amber about Violet, he couldn’t admit some of his perspective had changed.
Amber had listened in a way that no one else in his life had. Yes, she was acting as his healer, but she still could have dismissed him as so many others had. But she didn’t. She listened and even sympathized with him, if her caring expression was anything to go by.
He didn’t want to like her, knowing that would make what he had to do to her so much more difficult, but he found that he was struggling to maintain the kind of emotional distance he usually kept up with his lovers.
Yet… he still found himself leaving t
